Why is Meta not able to produce one proper keynote in their 21 year history? At this point it must be on purpose just to be relatable or something.
Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps
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You just don’t seem to understand. Mark wouldn’t hesitate to grind you down to the last atom in order to extract every last bit of value out of you. And you defend the guy because he gave you freebies, or something. I have no words.
This is exactly the behavior I'm describing.
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#273There is a second part that is equally bad, but with Zuck: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/...
Reminds me of Jin Yang and his 8 ways to cook an octopus, on silicon valley: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFB4WBdDg4
Funny how VR was the hyped thing when the show was filmed, and today the hype has been replaced wholesale by AI.
Also funny how Meta has been trying to capitalise on both things.
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i always wonder why they choose the stupidest shit for these demos. like, to whom do they think they're advertising this?
They don’t want to spend 30 min explaining domain knowledge required to understand a certain super specific case. Instead they show tech’s quality on a basic highest common denominator use case and allow people to extrapolate to their cases. Similarly car ads show people going from home to a store (or to mountains). You’re not asking there “but what if I want to go to a cinema with the car”. If it can go to a store,…
But those are things cars make sense for. When would I stand in my kitchen with a bunch of random ingredients strewn about the counter wondering what to make with them and conclude that an LLM would have a good answer? And what am I supposed to extrapolate from that example? I guess they were showing off that the system had good vision capabilities? Okay, but generative AIs are notoriously unreliable, unlike cars. Even if the demo had worked, it would tell me nothing about whether it would help me solve some random problem I could think up.
A better analogy would be the first cars being advertised as being usable as ballast for airships. Irrelevant and non-representative of a car's actual usefulness.
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#275I have a friend who does magic shows. He sells his shows as magic and stand-up comedy. It's both live entertainment, okay, but he is the only person I've ever seen use that tagline. We went to see him perform once and everything became clear when he opened the night. "This is supposed to be a magic show," he told us. "But if my tricks fail you can laugh at it and we'll just do stand-up comedy." Zuck, for a modest and…
So, wait, is he just a shitty magician and a funny guy, or does he fail on purpose?
Haha. I honestly don't know. Which makes him...a great entertainer at least? The show was a real good time though.
Take this with lots of salt but I read somewhere that circus shows "fail" at least one jump to help sell to the audience the risk the performers are taking. My friend did flub his opening trick with a cheeky see-I-told-you and we just laughed it off.
He incorporated the audience a lot that night so I thought the stand-up comedy claim was his insurance policy. In his hour-long set he flubbed maybe two or three tricks.
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Right, strapping a screen to your face is less distracting then having a device you can turn off and shove in your pocket...
My point is that the device that you keep in your pocket is one that you must take out with your hand and operate with your hand such that you cannot perform its primary functions without using hands. It's true that the Ray-Ban Meta Display can be controlled with hand gestures but doing so is apparently optional. Being able to control and consume content from a smart device while having your hands free to multitask i…
What nobody seems to be chasing (I assume because screens are flashier) is smart headphones. Imagine you could navigate a webpage with hand gestures and have it read to you while you walk or do chores. In some ways, this is way easier than head-mounted graphical displays; portable audio is already a solved problem. The problem that still needs to be solved is good quality TTS on a portable device, but honestly that seems way more tractable than portable HUDs.
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#277Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, strapping a screen to your face is less distracting then having a device you can turn off and shove in your pocket...
My point is that the device that you keep in your pocket is one that you must take out with your hand and operate with your hand such that you cannot perform its primary functions without using hands. It's true that the Ray-Ban Meta Display can be controlled with hand gestures but doing so is apparently optional. Being able to control and consume content from a smart device while having your hands free to multitask i…
None of those things actually have anything to do with being less distracted. If you have a screen in your face throwing all the notifications and bullshit at you that your phone normally does, it is going to be far more distracting. And humans are hilariously bad at multitasking. Taking your hands out of the equation doesn't magically make you better at it. Jesus we think people using their phones while walking or driving is bad, these things are gonna be a disaster.
If people are so addicted to their phone or smart watch that it's giving them back/neck problems, the solution isn't glasses. The solution is to be less addicted to your god damn devices.
Outside of a few niche use case I don't think tech like this will be anything but a net negative.
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#278So much negativity. I’m just excited that our industry is lead by optimists and our culture enables our corporations to invest huge sums into taking us forward technologically. Meta could have just done a stock buyback but instead they made a computer that can talk, see, solve problems and paint virtual things into the real world in front of your eyes! I commend them on attempting a live demo.
> I’m just excited that our industry is lead by optimists and our culture enables our corporations to invest huge sums into taking us forward technologically.
I am always baffled that people can be that naive.
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#279Never work with children, animals, and puppets. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverWorkWithChi...
and AI
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#280Legs! Part II